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“Maybe that's what living is--recognizing the marvels and oddities around you.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“Make sure that you make the beginning of whatever you begin beautiful.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“I'm not a violent person. I'm not advocating violence. But I am an angry person. I'm advocating for more people to get angry. Get moved.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Saints and Misfits
― Saints and Misfits
“The world is a mysterious place. On the one hand, its size can be measured and recorded and verified. Its marvels and oddities captured in complex, empirical detail.
On the other hand, its size is relative to our mind’s perception of it. Its marvels and oddities only extending to how far our vision goes.
For some of us, this means the world is small, including only those we see as belonging to it. People related to us, people who look like us, dress like us, think like us.
For others, it’s medium-size and includes those we connect to through some similarity, some trait that pings familiarity within, which then allows us to overlook the differences between us and them.
And then there are those who see the world as huge, as the actual size it measurably is.
Huge enough to include vast differences, people with nothing in common with one another except a beating heart and a feeling soul, these two—heart, soul—being the strongest connection between us all.”
― Love from A to Z
On the other hand, its size is relative to our mind’s perception of it. Its marvels and oddities only extending to how far our vision goes.
For some of us, this means the world is small, including only those we see as belonging to it. People related to us, people who look like us, dress like us, think like us.
For others, it’s medium-size and includes those we connect to through some similarity, some trait that pings familiarity within, which then allows us to overlook the differences between us and them.
And then there are those who see the world as huge, as the actual size it measurably is.
Huge enough to include vast differences, people with nothing in common with one another except a beating heart and a feeling soul, these two—heart, soul—being the strongest connection between us all.”
― Love from A to Z
“Never, ever quake in the face of hate, Zayneb.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“Your resistance to my existence is futile.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“She believed in such a world, where everyone got a turn, a season in the sun.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“This is a love story. You’ve been warned.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“I was in this weird space of wanting not to be alone and wanting not to be crowded, either.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“Human rights. For everyone. Because that was the only way the world made sense. When the arc of care went far and wide, it journeyed and battled to exclude none.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“They say friends are the family you choose”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“Life goes on, even if love doesn't.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“The shame should have been all his but I chose to carry it around this whole time.”
― Saints and Misfits
― Saints and Misfits
“I’m someone who gets consumed by stuff. It engulfs me, wraps me up in its embrace, and doesn’t let me be until I’ve deal with it.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“Girls like me who see and feel the pains and problems of the world don’t make sense to people. So maybe we’re meant to be alone, or only with people exactly like us.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“I just wanted the right mix of being with someone I connected to, who cared, but also let me be.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“One of the reasons Ayaan said she loves being Muslim is because it makes her feel like a natural feminist. "Like hello? Our queen Khadija didn't wait for the man she had her eye on to ask her, to get on his knees. Nope. Instead, she said, 'I like you, oh employee of mine. Will you marry me?' And then, after they hitched, she just kept her job as his boss. Mad respect.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“We're allowed to cry.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“How do you wash off what can't be seen?”
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“There are a lot of ways to show our faith and love to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. You pick the ones that are right for who you are right now.”
― Once Upon an Eid
― Once Upon an Eid
“And now here we were, almost a thousand years later, still doing it. Trying to make sense of what was happening around us. Maybe that's what life is, really.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“There was a reason love was a round sounding word. It completed you and then some, like treading a circular path, the way it was immemorial. Whole. But also... infinite. It went on and on as long as you went on and on, to meet it, keep it, treasure it. And I would.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“the why you do something is important.”
― Saints and Misfits
― Saints and Misfits
“You need to have a way to take care of yourself. A way to recharge. Otherwise the world will get you down so fast, you won’t be able to hold your head up. I learned this the hard way.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“Here's one thing I CAN figure out and that's how much I don't know. How I don't know what you went through at school. With your teacher. I don't know about the extent of the Islamophobia you've faced. I don't know what it feel like to be you. But here's another thing: I DO want to know.”
― Love from A to Z
― Love from A to Z
“Special days start when you run toward them.”
― Once Upon an Eid
― Once Upon an Eid
“There are diverse ways of reading texts, depending on who you are. We all access books differently.”
― Saints and Misfits
― Saints and Misfits
“Throughout our lives, pain visits us in turns. There isn't a human alive that hasn't been touched by pain. We all carry scars and wounds, but only some rise to the surface to be seen and commented on. Simply put, the story of pain is common to us all.”
― Misfit in Love
― Misfit in Love
